Why the Zero Waste Movement Needs to Target Lazy People

For quite some time now, I have been interested in the Zero Waste movement. I changed some elements of my daily life as well as some shopping routines. Since I moved to a large city, I even have the luxury of being able to shop at "packaging-free" stores and seriously started thinking about opening such …

Problems that keep me up at night

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I know it's been a little quiet around here recently. But although I have been slacking a bit with my usual book reviews, I feel like I'm finally starting to think the way I need to to start my own business. Rather than thinking too hard about what I'd like …

My Zero Waste Journey

This is a post I shared on another blog in December 2018. Since I'm still quite engaged in the topic of Zero Waste, I thought I should share my first steps towards waste reduction here once again. I will write an update soon on the progress I have made since then. A couple of months …

Designing the Perfect Organization

My previous post, as well as the book I'm currently reading (Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations), reminded me of a term paper I wrote some time ago at university. In our Organizational Planning and Development course, we were given the task to "Design and Describe the Perfect Organization". Even at that time, I had been thinking …

Teal: The Organizational System I Never Knew Of

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Finally, I understand why I have always been struggling so much with the large, traditional organizations I have been working at so far. I'm currently reading Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations - and the further on I read, the more clearly it becomes: I have a "teal" mindset, which clashes with …

Book Review: Drive

Daniel H. Pink: "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" I read this book quite some time ago when I was still at university. It was on the compulsory reading list in my Organizational Planning and Development course and profoundly shaped my view of work organization and motivation. In his book, Dan Pink presents …

Book Review: The Lean Startup

Eric Ries: "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" Initially, I picked up this book because I am enthusiastic about Lean Management and had long been thinking about starting my own business. So naturally, I was curious about how Lean methodologies could be applied when founding a new …

Power to the People: The Perks of Decentralization

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Today I would like to write about Gemba - another concept in Lean Management, which can easily be applied to a broader context. Literally, the Japanese term Gemba translates to the actual place. In a production environment, this usually refers to the shop floor. Here, the idea is that problems …

Book Review: Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari: "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" I picked up this book at an airport bookstore on a business trip, as I had read and liked Harari's earlier work "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" before. Unlike Sapiens, this book takes us to the future rather than the past. The author explores …

Book Review: Disrupt Yourself

The week before last, I participated in the “Disrupt Yourself Camp” in Hamburg, an event providing a discussion platform on why and how people need to change in light of digitalization. The event’s keynote speaker Christoph Keese, a German expert on digitalization, published a book with the same title beforehand. So in order to prepare …